until you become a bullet

Garth 2022-03-21 09:02:12

"Come And See", translated as "See for Yourself", shows the randomness of the events that broke out in the Soviet-German war for each individual through the perspective of a boy from the former Soviet Union. And all the disorder has elastically defeated each individual's judgment on the development of events. The primitive desire to live and the abyss of human nature do not know where to find the bottom. The knife has not yet fallen, but people have already gone crazy.

In the film, the bedridden grandmother who is taken away from the burning house by the Germans, with a calm smile, faces the screaming souls under all the flames in the same village. The randomness of being rescued may be opposite to another piece of land. The only man among the villagers who was burned and teased was surrounded by the rest of the wounded souls who accompany him in mourning.

When the knife will fall, who will it fall on, and who will be saved, there is no logic to follow.

But what is even more paradoxical is that the male protagonist picks up the gun and starts to snatch Hitler's portrait. Every time he shoots, the time line goes back a little bit, until Hitler returns to a baby who is still sitting in his mother's lap, the male protagonist will stop robbing. .

If we, who already know the future, go back to the past, will we definitely snatch the young Hitler? Can we really connect this baby to what an adult Hitler does?

And most importantly, kill Hitler, will a similar war never happen again?

We hesitated, we didn't know, so we put down the gun.

The male protagonist went from the boy who was curiously and excitedly looking for a gun in the land, and then was afraid of being discovered by the Germans and then hid the gun. After experiencing all the cruelty and helplessness, he became the one who finally carried the gun on his back and disappeared in the long queue. bullet.

I have no intention of judging anything, but I just feel that in those times, finding a clear path is already a life.

And who will be the next to find a gun in the land, who will be a bullet, it seems like it will never end.

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Come and See quotes

  • Flyora Gaishun: To love... to have children...

  • Man in village: You're a Hopeless optimist.

    Man#2 in village: He should be cured of that.